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The Mundelein boys basketball team has four players headed for full college scholarships. From left are Sean OBrien, Robert Knar, Cliff Dunigan and Chino Ebube.
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Grade school boys tend live in the moment. Theyll talk about their favorite video games, or what theyre going to trade for at lunch.
Robert Knar, Sean OBrien, Chino Ebube and Cliff Dunigan were a little bit different at that age. They liked to envision the future, and think more big picture.
Wed go to the varsity basketball games right after our feeder games and wed talk about getting taller and how wed all be studs in high school, Knar laughed. We talked about how we were all going to play in college someday.
Now seniors at Mundelein, Knar, OBrien, Ebube and Dunigan have made their hoops dreams a reality. Theyre a perfect 4-for-4.
Last month, the longtime friends put pen to paper and signed their official NCAA letters of intent to play college basketball. Knar and OBrien will be playing at Division I mid-major powers Northern Iowa and Southern Illinois, respectively. Ebube and Dunigan are going the Division II route. They both signed on at Missouri S&T.
All four also got full scholarships, which makes their story all the more unique.
Rarely are there four college basketball signees on the same high school team, let alone four players from the same high school team and in the same class who all earn full-ride scholarships.
I think one of the biggest things is Coach (Dick) Knar, Dunigan said of his head coach. He sends out so much tape on us. He contacts coaches about us. He really works hard for us.
It is a tribute to Knar, OBrien agreed. He got us going at a young age, he got us working hard and he helped us get onto a lot of AAU teams where wed get seen by the right college coaches. Its paid off. I cant remember the last time in our conference four guys got full rides from one team, all in the same year.
In Lake County, you might see one kid from a team get a full scholarship. Then maybe some of the other players on his team get partial scholarships or walk-on offers. Anything beyond that simply doesnt happen all that often.
Ive been coaching high school basketball for 16 years and Ive never seen anything like this. Im sure its happened, but you just dont hear about it much, said Dick Knar, who is also Roberts dad. This is a special group. You could kind of see it coming when these guys were in feeder basketball and as they were coming up through junior high and into high school. Theyre talented, they work hard, and they play so well together.
The other neat thing is that theyve been able to do all of this together. They came up together and now theyre all going to be taking that next step together.
Ebube and Dunigan could literally end up being roommates.
They say they didnt plan on going to the same school, but theyre glad it worked out that way. Both of them fell in love with Missouri S&T on their visits.
Im ecstatic to be playing with Chino for four more years, Dunigan said. I think we do a good job of pushing each other to get better and I think we play well together, too. We know each others tendencies and have pretty good chemistry. Weve been playing together for so long, in high school, in AAU, and before that.
Pretty soon, Knar and OBrien will be playing against each other.
Their colleges are in the same conference, the Missouri Valley Conference.
Seeing Robert twice a year will be great, said OBrien, who remembers dreaming about playing in college since first grade. And I think its pretty cool that Cliff and Chino get to play together. I think were all excited that we got these scholarships that weve been dreaming about. But I know we want more. When we were younger and we talked about playing in college, we also talked about winning a state title as seniors.
Wed really like to do that.
Theyll have to do it while trying to downplay all the hype.
With four full-scholarship players on the roster, much is expected of the Mustangs, even though Knar is out until at least late January with an injured knee that he has been rehabbing since the summer. When he gets back, the pressure will be turned up even more.
I dont know if other teams are looking at us any different, Ebube said. But I know they want to try to compete with us. We just need to keep working hard and proving ourselves every day.
Sometimes, the hardest place to do that is in practice. With so much talent on the floor at the same time, the competition can be brutal.
Not that the Mustangs are complaining, though. Theyre the ones who made each other so good in the first place.
People wonder how we function when we have four college guys on the floor at the same time. They wonder if there are enough (basketballs) to go around, Robert Knar said. It has nothing to do with the egos for us. Being together has made us all better and we love that. From my standpoint, were the best team in Lake County because of it.
I think our program has become one of the best, too. Weve got some guys out there playing college basketball right now. And having four more college guys coming through says that were a legit program that is producing really talented players.


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(Lenexa, Kan., Feb. 7, 2013) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the City of Omaha, Neb., will receive technical assistance through the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program. The announcement was made at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Kansas City, Mo.
EPA awarded Omaha an Economic and Fiscal Health Workshop. The workshop will provide Omaha with key assistance to minimize private and public development costs while maximizing property values and associated revenues.
"The Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program coordinates federal investments in infrastructure and helps communities make smart planning choices," said Karl Brooks, EPA Region 7 Administrator. "We would like this Omaha project to inspire other cities to embrace smart growth initiatives and programs."
EPA's technical assistance will help Omaha find ways to reinvest in the city's core by establishing the proper mix of land uses, creating a range of housing options, and strengthening existing neighborhoods transforming the city into a more sustainable community. This assistance will build on work being done in the community in partnership with International Business Machines' Smart Cities Challenge program.
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What does a world class ETF investment advisory practice look like? How does it get built? And how can advisors position their businesses for the next wave of growth?
Research spoke with four leading advisors from across the U.S. about their views. We asked them about their ETF businesses and how they've managed to separate themselves from the pack. Along with sharing their success formulas, they share valuable insights about today's ETF marketplace and where things are headed.
Douglas Wolfe, Principal and CIO at Saddle River Capital Management ($30 million AUM) in Saddle River, N.J.
Hugh Fitzpatrick, CEO at Princeton Capital Management ($115 million AUM) in Princeton, N.J.
Jeffrey C. Anderson, Jr., Sr. Vice President, National Sales Manager at Efficient Market Advisors ($305 million AUM) in San Diego.
Michael A. Gayed, CFA, Chief Investment Strategist at Pension Partners ($127 million AUM) in New York.
How do you differentiate your ETF advisory practice from the competition?
Anderson: Primarily, we are an outsourced solution for advisors looking to create scale in their practice by utilizing a turnkey asset management solution as opposed to being a local market RIA. Secondarily, we are different from our peers because we utilize a "liquid endowment model" combing strategic, tactical and opportunistic allocation into all our portfolios.
Gayed: While many may use ETFs as a low-cost alternative to mutual funds as part of a passive overall asset allocation, Pension Partners uses them to actively and tactically buy and rotate across various segments of the investable landscape. Through the use of our ATAC models used for managing our mutual fund and separate accounts, we have the ability to quickly and efficiently completely reposition our asset allocation exposure in a single day, altering what we are tracking based on market conditions and intermarket trend movement.
Wolfe: We build our own portfolios. When we first started our practice in 2004 we wanted to stand apart from other advisors. We had a strong background in research and trading, and we had a very good understanding of a fairly new product at the time, exchange-traded funds. We thought that if we could be "the expert advisors" in this new product that would be enough to differentiate ourselves from most. We put together five ETF portfolios, based on client risk categories, and placed our clients in them. So, we can now be called an asset manager as well. Our practice is now almost 100% dedicated to exchange-traded funds.
Fitzpatrick: The broker-dealer community is additionally resisting the move by regulators and consumer activists to impose fiduciary obligations on registered representatives. The instinct is to offer bland, standardized financial products that will be "safe" by being formulaically diversified and conservative. As the large firms drive to protect themselves from legal liability "when things go wrong," they are standardizing financial products more and more. The goal is protecting the broker-dealer and the investment advisor from liability; the trade-off lowers the investors' likely returns in order to lower the vendors' risks. This approach is particularly damaging to investors when the compounding effects of time are factored into the equation. The flight from liability by large investment managers and large broker-dealers creates the independent investment advisors' opportunity.
How do you decide which specific ETFs to use to build portfolios?
Anderson: Our screening process begins with the universe of approximately 1,200 U.S. based ETFs. For us, the primary considerations are structure, liquidity and cost. We then focus on long only, non-levered ETFs of the traditional cap weighted indexes. It's important for us to focus as much as we can on the allocation as opposed to trying to be too creative around the construction of the index.
Gayed: Our models primarily focus on broad based equity and bond segments, allowing us to target multiple inexpensive ETFs which track those areas for our clients. By spreading out our investments across several ETFs, we can more efficiently rotate large sums of money and help diversify away some of the tracking error risk that might otherwise occur through such an active strategy.
Fitzpatrick: We find the current tools for understanding ETFs inadequate. We struggle to understand what we want to buy. We view our first task as understanding the building blocks, that is the individual ETF. We are hopeful that Stock Smart's (developing) new analytical approach will let us both "unzip" an individual ETF and see what is in it and then compare that ETF to others in analytically meaningful ways, as well as "unzip" a whole portfolio of ETFs and then "merge" them to see what the portfolio actually owns. ETFs can also be combined with stocks to create the clearest picture of ownership, diversification and risk exposure.
Wolfe: We had a strong research background, so decided to come up with a research process that would break down each ETF by its underlying constituents and score each ETF by a number of fundamental and technical indicators. The ETFs that score in the top of their asset classes are the only ones considered when building the portfolios. We also have incorporated a number of outside research products into our process to act as a check against our own research.
What type of tools or technology are you using to help with portfolio management?
Anderson: Our technology vendor for portfolio management is Orion Advisory Services. They are a very responsive partner and have helped us do a great job at constructing and maintaining a GIPS compliant performance composite.
Gayed: We primarily use Fidelity, and execute ETF trades through various algorithms designed to minimize NAV impact.
Fitzpatrick: We are changing our approach to technology, primarily to enable us to change our business model. We are planning to implement a business model that uses ETFs within model portfolios within defined contribution plans. The Invest N Retire patent on this approach caught our eye and we believe the approach is powerful. It changes the balance of power in our industry and gives a small player like us a unique value proposition versus the traditional large vendors. Invest N Retire's abilities to allocate this week's payroll deductions to the underweighted assets in a professionally managed model portfolio at the plan participant level, and to calculate account performance at the plan participant level, is powerful. Hudson Canyon's ability to develop model portfolios using relative strength disciplines with ETF's is also powerful. The analytical capabilities that Stock Smart and Quant Advisor are developing are promising.
Wolfe: We have created what we call "The Black Box." It is a gigantic Microsoft Excel program that we use to pull and sort all the data sources together and ultimately score each ETF. Some of the other tools we use are Thompson/Baseline for mining our proprietary fundamental and technical research, S&P Marketscope for their ETF analysis, Dorsey Wright for their Technical research and Morningstar for their ETF research.
Name one marketing savvy tip that has contributed to the success of your business.
Anderson: Complete transparency into our process and performance has helped us with credibility. Our chief investment officer, Herb Morgan, does a weekly narrated commentary, which is published via our website. This has helped the advisors and their clients stay in touch with the inner workings and research process of our investment policy team. In addition, we publish performance numbers every month to the front page of our website for public consumption.
Gayed: We no longer live in a solicitation world. We live in a search world. Be visible.
Fitzpatrick: The advice to build a new mousetrap by combining several unique features based on new approaches to old problems gave me the courage to try.
Wolfe: When we first got into the business of marketing ETF portfolios we confronted a lot of headwinds. Advisors who were either doing their own portfolio management or believed they could put a few ETFs into a portfolio and call it a day. Either way, they didn't need us. We also ran into, and still do, many advisors and institutional investors that needed to be educated on the product. Some who were just beginning to open themselves up to the use of ETFs and some others who were trying to grasp the inner workings of an individual ETF itself. This business is still in its infancy. Simply believing in the product and being persistent through thick and thin would be my simple marketing tip.
Looking ahead, where do you see the biggest growth opportunities for ETF focused advisors?
Anderson: The next biggest opportunity, but even possibly more substantial from an asset flow perspective, is the role ETFs are playing in the retirement plan space. With open architecture firms like Verisight and trading platforms like Mid-Atlantic, I believe we'll continue to see more plan sponsors gravitate towards ETFs due to the lower cost and enhanced selection of asset managers and their advisor counterparts who now have a great opportunity to deliver a fiduciary based solution at a lower price point.
Gayed: Tactical asset allocation using ETFs likely will have growing appeal as individuals and advisors look towards diversifying away from mainstream stock and bond concentration risk. Volatile stock markets and rising yields will make holding "all the risk" all the time, a difficult strategy. Rather, the future investing environment will likely be about holding the right risk and the right time.
Fitzpatrick: The ETF's combination of focus and diversification makes them powerful building blocks for designing portfolios. We are trying to build a business by using ETFs to attack what we see as the biggest problem the country faces: the fact that millions of Americans face retirement without enough savings. If we can increase savings, improve returns and cut costs, we just might be able to build a business! The politics of addressing this impending crisis will be nasty. Expect more government intervention into the retirement business.
Wolfe: The business of providing ETF portfolios as an advisor or simply using ETF's as a part of your practice is in its infancy. Other advisors are just beginning to understand the benefits of their use. The fact that becoming an independent advisor is growing and many of these advisors are becoming more comfortable with the idea that they don't want to be a client's portfolio manager, but would rather outsource that function and be the asset gatherer and trusted Advisor. This opens the door to firms that want to focus on the actual ETF managed Portfolio function. Another area that may take a bit of time but would be a huge benefactor of managed ETF portfolios is the 401(k) market.


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Authors and publishers of controversial scientific articles, and the companies sponsoring those articles, won broad free speech protection from a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said statements of scientific conclusions on matters open to scientific debate, and which are published in a research article, cannot result in damages associated with defamation.
It also said companies may promote excerpts from such an article so long as readers are not misled about the conclusions.
While statements about contested scientific hypotheses are in principle "matters of verifiable fact," for purposes of the First Amendment they are closer to matters of opinion, Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel.
The decision is a defeat for ONY Inc., an upstate New York company that had sued Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc., Italy's Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA, several doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
ONY's case focused on a 2011 article about the effectiveness of drugs meant to help premature infants who face a higher risk of collapsed lungs and respiratory distress to breathe more easily, reducing the risk of respiratory failure and death.
Chiesi had earlier contracted for a study to compare its drug, Curosurf, with ONY's Infasurf and Survanta, a rival drug made by AbbVie Inc.
Parts of these findings were published by some of the doctor defendants in the AAP's Journal of Perinatology, and the article was later used in promotional materials by Chiesi and Cornerstone, which marketed Curosurf in the United States.
ONY said the article contained several incorrect statements of fact suggesting greater infant mortality with Infasurf than Curosurf, and selectively chose data that favored Curosurf.
The Amherst, New York-based company's lawsuit accused various defendants of false advertising that violated the federal Lanham Act, and a New York state law against deceptive business activity, injurious falsehood, and interfering with its dealings with hospitals and health care providers.
ONY sought $10 million in damages, and triple damages against Chiesi and Cornerstone, court papers show.
But in upholding a May 2012 dismissal of the lawsuit by a federal judge in Buffalo, New York, Lynch said "academic freedom is a special concern of the First Amendment," and warned against extending the Lanham Act to intrude on the amendment's values.
"As a matter of law, statements of scientific conclusions about unsettled matters of scientific debate cannot give rise to liability for damages sounding in defamation," Lynch wrote. "We further conclude that the secondary distribution of excerpts of such an article cannot give rise to liability, so long as the excerpts do not mislead a reader about the conclusions."
The decision applies in New York, Connecticut and Vermont, but may be cited as authority in other jurisdictions.
ONY, in a statement, said, "It is unfortunate that the law here failed to protect a vulnerable audience, busy physicians devoting their lives to critically ill infants, from the purely mercenary appeals of persons elevating their own profits over – and under the guise of – objective science."
J. Kevin Fee, a lawyer for the defendants, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The AAP did not immediately respond to requests for comment. AbbVie is not a party to the lawsuit.
The case is ONY Inc. v. Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc et al, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 12-2414.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Guard Association of the United States today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett Jr., the NGAUS president:
"Fueled by misinformation from some Air Force officers, it appears a handful of House Armed Services Committee members are willing to circumvent the legislative process to force a budget on the Air National Guard that the governors, the adjutants general and most in Congress oppose.
"This is the kind of mischief that can occur during conference, when a handful from the House and Senate can go behind closed doors and literally change legislation in the name of forging compromise between the two chambers.
"The House and Senate both rejected the Air Force's fiscal 2013 budget request, which would take disproportionate cuts from the Air National Guard. Both chambers told Air Force officials to go back and work with the governors and the adjutants general on a new proposal that addressed state concerns.
"Unfortunately, Air Force officials have since ignored the governors and the adjutants general. Neither group has been able to provide meaningful input to a new budget plan. Nevertheless, Air Force officers have told members of Congress that they have a compromise plan in hand.
"For the record, the nation's governors and adjutants general favor a freeze on Air Guard manpower and force structure and the establishment of a National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force. Neither organization has agreed to any Air Force proposal. Both remain concerned that the cuts to the Air Guard would adversely affect domestic response.
"In addition, to our knowledge, the chief of the National Guard Bureau has not endorsed any compromise plan for the Air National Guard in the fiscal 2013 Air Force budget.
"Commissions are certainly not the ideal way to craft budget decisions. They are a last resort. But at this point, a commission independent from the Air Force is our only remaining hope for a transparent process that includes real input from the governors and Guard leaders."
About NGAUS: The association includes nearly 45,000 current or former Guard officers. It was created in 1878 to provide unified National Guard representation in Washington. In their first productive meeting after Reconstruction, militia officers from the North and South formed the association with the goal of obtaining better equipment and training by petitioning Congress for more resources. Today, 134 years later, NGAUS has the same mission.


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By The Cloud Foundation
ROCK SPRINGS, WY. (Dec. 10, 2013) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) helicopter roundup of Wyoming's Salt Wells wild horses in the snow and cold is over, but the inhumane treatment of the over 668 captive mustangs is continuing according to eyewitnesses to both the roundup and the corralling of the horses.
After being driven into traps with two helicopters, most stallions were shipped 300 miles to the Gunnison Prison Wild Horse Program in central Utah, while the mares and foals were sent to the BLM's Rock Springs corrals, according to Wild Horse and Burro Specialist, Jay D'Ewart. Neither facility has adequate wind breaks or shelter for the captive animals, and eyewitnesses in Rock Springs reported bitter cold and battering winds.
Noted wild horse photographer Carol Walker described the conditions: "Mares and foals seemed frozen in place, resigned, unmoving. There is no shelter for these horses in Short Term Holding Facilities and although they have heavy winter coats, these horses have nowhere to get out of the biting, stinging wind. In their natural setting, they would be out of sight in low areas, gullies, next to cliffs, sheltered from the wind."
The Cloud Foundation (TCF) questioned the BLM in Rock Springs about whether there were windbreaks for the horses warehoused there. BLM responded by email that the horses do have windbreaks.
"Look at my pictures and see if you see adequate windbreaks," says Carol Walker. "The temperature was below zero with the snow blasting through the pens where the horses were huddled together for warmth."
TCF also requested an accounting of how many wild horses are currently being held in the Rock Springs corrals. The BLM public information officer told Ginger Kathrens, Executive Director of TCF in an email to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for this information.
"Responses to FOIA requests typically take months and then the government may simply deny the information requested," stated Kathrens. "Why is this information being kept secret? Have horses already died in these frigid conditions?"
Unless TCF gets a count immediately, there may be no way to determine foal survival rates since BLM, shockingly, does not count young horses less than six months of age. At the BLM National Adoption Center in Palomino Valley (PVC) foals that die that are less than six months of age are not counted and their bodies are shipped to local renderers with no paper trail documenting that they ever existed.
BLM was criticized for its lack of transparency in the recent National Academies of Science (NAS) review of the troubled Wild Horse and Burro Program but no recommended changes have been announced or implemented. The NAS also concluded that massive roundups, like the one just completed in Wyoming, are counterproductive and stimulate increased breeding among the remaining bands.
The Cloud Foundation is calling on Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to weigh in on the situation. "First the horses are rounded up in the bitter cold, and now they are trapped in small corrals that do not offer the horses any protection from the elements," states Rachel Reeves who attended and photographed the roundup. "It is heartbreaking to see these wild horses being held captive in such inhumane conditions. I especially worry for the small foals, some of whom were less than two months old when they were rounded up and removed."
Many advocates are disappointed with the continued lack of attention by Jewell, despite continued criticism from Americans all over the country. "As adopters, we must have adequate shelter for our BLM mustangs," states Lisa Friday, a Virginia wild horse adopter and advocate. "Why is the government not held to the same standard? It is long past time for a change!"
BLM Helicopter Roundups Continue to Destroy Wild Horse Herds – Targeting southern Wyoming herds.
Federal Court Sanctions Plans to eliminate Wild Free-Roaming Horses from Wyoming Checkerboard


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Free access to Copernicus Sentinel satellite data
Free and open access to Sentinel satellite data will be granted for the Copernicus operational phase.
The European Delegated Act on Copernicus data and information policy will enter into force in the coming days. This Act provides free, full and open access to users of environmental data from the Copernicus programme, including data from the Sentinel satellites.
This decision confirms the one recently adopted by ESA Member States – as current owners of the Sentinel satellites – for granting free and open access to Sentinel data. It will allow long-term continued access to data through the operational phase of Copernicus, led by the European Commission.
These data will dramatically improve the management of the environment, help to understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security.
ESA is coordinating the acquisition and delivery of data through the Sentinel series of satellites, the first of which is set for launch next year.
This common approach on data policy confirms the coherence between the EU and ESA in the Copernicus programme. It paves the way for a successful uptake of the operational phase of the Copernicus Space Component, as well as the full economic benefits to come from the Copernicus programme.
Studies show that Copernicus could generate a financial benefit of some €30 billion and a minimum of about 50 000 new jobs by 2030.
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By Rabbi Jack Alan Luxemburg
Adonai spoke to Moses, saying: "Go and tell Pharaoh, King of Egypt, to let the Israelites depart from his land." But Moses appealed to Adonai, saying: "The Israelites would not listen to me; how then should Pharaoh heed me, a man of impeded speech!" (Exodus 6:10-12)
Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (1824-1898) was a pioneer of Religious Zionism and a founder of the Hovevei Zion Movement, an important precursor to modern Zionism. His efforts to promote Jewish settlement in Israel (then under the rule of the Ottoman Turks) and reclamation of the land through agriculture, gave him an interesting perspective on these verses from Parshat Va-eira.
"These verses puzzle me.", he is said to have observed. "Why did Moses argue with God? Why did he not try to find out what Pharaoh's reaction would be? Actually, I think these verses should be interpreted to mean that Moses said: 'What will happen if Pharaoh listens to me and agrees to let the Children of Israel go, but the Children of Israel refuse to hear me? Better I should seal my lips and remain speechless!"
This unusual interpretation arose from the Rabbi's reaction to events with which he was personally familiar. According to him, after Theodore Herzl had won permission to purchase a large tract of land in Israel from the Turks, Herzl appealed to leading Jewish philanthropists and then to the larger Jewish community for the funds to close the purchase. Herzl was enthusiastic and hopeful, and anticipated a similar response from the larger Jewish world. After all, here was an opportunity to begin the restoration of Jews to our ancient homeland. However, the necessary support didn't immediately materialize. The Ottomans were willing to sell, but the Jewish community wasn't yet ready. According to Rabbi Mohilever, Herzl was dismayed, but, thankfully, not dissuaded from his prophetic vision. And the Rabbi was left to wonder if Moses shared Herzl's dismay. After all, our ancestors initially didn't respond positively to Moses. "But when Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to Moses, their spirits crushed by cruel bondage (mi'kotzer ruach umi'avodah kashah)". (Ex. 6:9) It would appear that Rabbi Mohilever's interpretation above reflects the consternation he imagined that Moses and Herzl – and he, himself — may have shared when it appeared possible that Jews might be less than enthusiastic in their response to the challenging call of Jewish destiny.
The call is as compelling and the challenges are as complex in our own day. This is true in many facets of Jewish life, including the one that ties us most closely to Herzl, to Rabbi Mohilever and to the Zionist visionaries of our own movement – Israel and the ongoing nation-building enterprise of the Jewish people. Through ARZA – the Association of Reform Zionists in America – and through the other activities of the URJ family that encourage serious, substantive and constructive engagement with the modern Jewish state, with our people and with our movement in Israel – we continue working towards realizing both the dream of a Jewish state and the hope that it will become an exemplar, a light to the other nations of the world. Many of us involved in this sacred work have had moments when we felt just like Moses or Herzl. Maybe we, too, wonder like Rabbi Mohilever does in his drash, if it is better to "remain speechless" in the face of disinterest, disengagement or disillusionment.
To the great and enduring benefit of our people, none of these great men – not Moses, Herzl or Rabbi Mohilever – nor the similarly courageous women who stood with them remained quiet. Neither should we. To what they perceived as the kotzer ruach – the diminished spirits or despondency – that afflicted hearts and souls of our people in their day, these heroes and heroines continued to work, to speak out and to turn each success, not matter how small, into an enduring source of tikvah (hope) that sustained and inspired the Jewish people then and now.
The phrase, kotzer ruach, is translated in Modern Hebrew as "impatience". In our work as Reform Zionists today, I think this is helpful. We are not a people or a movement of "crushed spirit" or "despondence". We are vital and vibrant; responsive to the challenges of contemporary Jewish life both here and in Israel; and willing to engage in all its complexity. However, we are, sometimes, impatient. When dreams and aspirations, even those noble or sacred, go unrealized, impatience can lead to frustration, followed by disillusionment and disengagement. It is important to keep this in mind. Difficulties and disappointments have accompanied the Zionist enterprise at every stage. Even so, like our predecessors, we will not be dissuaded or "speechless". Rather, we will be patient but persistent and principled. We will continue to raise our voices, engage our energies and invest our resources in ways that will strengthen and secure the reality of Jewish nationhood, and will someday turn our highest hopes for State of Israel into proud moments for all the Jewish people, now and far into the future.
Rabbi Jack Alan Luxemburg is the Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Ami of Rockville, MD and Senior Vice-Chairman of ARZA. The thoughts of Rabbi Samuel Mohilever cited above are recalled in Heaven on Your Head by Rabbi Morris Silverman.
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Uncle Quincy they gon dig this
haha, hold up
Alright people, I wanna see you dance if your type forever
get your hands up, say hey
and shawty you're looking good
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I got to the park, supercool, stupid hot
he the freshest from his fitted down to the shoes and socks
can you wanna like it, couldn't care less if you do or not
A reminder for those of you who forget
here's the king partna', ya ain't bout to say a big deal I'm not
fifty mill I got, double down why not
177 Aston Martin cash and carry off the lot
they say money talk but listen Shorty cause I talk a lot
incredible, my pockets and a cherry red drop
your money funny, big diamonds in the words red boss
We're gonna be smoking the city when I come kicking come and witness
8 hundred young women all here for Young fif
listen, if i really dig her, let her meet my uncle Quincy
catch up with me s_ckers gonna need a solid month of?
many moons will it take you baffoons, many goons
presents fill up any room, King back gimme room
I told the World what I'm gon do, check the charts if you want proof
number 1 and number 2, I'll take the rest, don't mind if I do
pull my seat up to this table in the game, where's my food
but frankly, I accomplished what they said I'll never do
or maybe you've been sleeping or snoozing on me before
or possibly, blocking me from opening doors
and everybody surprised now
3 years down the road, but where was everybody
when albums wasn't exposed
who cares if it ain't fair
cause I mean?
Bob on beast, Bob on blast, Bob is everything you say
its finesse, an expression, an emphasis on my name
talking record labels corporations this is entertainment
here is what I meant
they be like "hey Bob try this"
put on this shirt, put on these jeans
put on this hat, that'd be the sh_t
rap it like that, sing it like this
yeah yeah yeah
that'll be a hit
whats his name,
[Young Dro]
Hey look, came on so hard
you don't see the star in me
Dro, I can do anything, you don't see the heart in me
pressure becomes combustible
wheels squeezing the arteries of haters
plus my uncle is Quincy Jones so pardon me
I like riding a may
when it come to money boy, we got that?
looking bad as ever, mansion in the panamerica
why sick, I'm extravagant and clever
will damage you, it's whatever
Grand Hustle Kings
I wont get off the mic until that thing starts sizzling
block you like a histamine
this is really history
watch ya old lady 'fore I slip in with this hickory
like elmo y'all tickle me
why I still be ripping beats
backing fantastic, tell me that you've been listening
white on white, drop back joint
T.I. in a ride out
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sweater dress from Makemechic! Matt and I rarely do anything big for New Year's Eve so while I love the sequins and glamor, that really isn't our style. A cozy dress like this works for a simple date night or something even a little dressier. The off the shoulder still lets you show some skin while staying covered up and warm everywhere else. And for only $25 it's winter date night perfection!
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Navy Off the Shoulder Sweater Dress & Confident Twosday Linkup
sweater dress from Makemechic! Matt and I rarely do anything big for New Year's Eve so while I love the sequins and glamor, that really isn't our style. A cozy dress like this works for a simple date night or something even a little dressier. The off the shoulder still lets you show some skin while staying covered up and warm everywhere else. And for only $25 it's winter date night perfection!
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That is a lovely dress and your hair is beautiful in these pics too! :) It sounds like it was a really fun and family filled Christmas you had :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for the link up!
Away From The Blue Blog
Gorgeous dress! You look beautiful!ReplyDelete
Absolutely stunning! What a fun and chic dress!ReplyDelete
That looks so cozy and something I'd wear out or inside for a Date Night In! I love your boots and clutch! I hope you have a wonderful New Years!ReplyDelete
What a cozy and chic sweater dress! You look gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Doused In Pink
You are stunning in this! Love the color and style of your sweater dress with the OTK boots. And that choker is so stylish! Thanks for hosting!!!ReplyDelete
Sarah Bell
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Love that cozy-chic dress! And your hair just always looks so pretty and healthy!ReplyDelete
Gina || On the Daily Express
We don't "go out" for NYE either but we do go to another couple's place for a movie!! It is fun to dress up a little, yet be comfy!!ReplyDelete
This dress is so fun---and the choker very stylish!!
Maybe I'll try something like this!
I love that cozy dress and you can't beat the price!ReplyDelete
It sounds like you have been having a great holiday. Navy looks great on you.ReplyDelete
Four is such a super fun age! Sounds like you have been having a beautiful holiday.ReplyDelete
Loving this pretty off-the-shoulder sweater number, lady!ReplyDelete
Le Stylo Rouge
Love the pretty sweater dress on you! Glad you had a nice Christmas.ReplyDelete
Amy Ann
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such a pretty dress. . .Love the way you styled itReplyDelete
Life is just Rosie
This sweater dress looks so warm and chic! I love it with the choker necklace and those boots. We are going to get to go out for NYE, the first time in a LONG time. I'm excited, but now the forecast is calling for bad weather! Wah!! Fingers crossed we still get to go. Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas and happy birthday to Claire!ReplyDelete
What a cozy look - I spent Christmas sick with a fever.. and have no plans for NYE.ReplyDelete
Sounds like you had such a fun holiday! It's always nice when there are little ones to make everything magical for. The off the shoulder sweater dress is a nice compromise between dressy and cozy.ReplyDelete
You are just all kinks of cuteness!ReplyDelete
Happy Holidays!
I always love your hair! Such a cute look! And I need a good, warm sweater dress.ReplyDelete
love this off the shoulder look!ReplyDelete
That dress is everything on you! GORGEOUS girl!ReplyDelete
The Adored Life
LOVE this off-shoulder on you. And the color is so pretty!!ReplyDelete
Super cute dress! You look fabulous!ReplyDelete
Wishing you a fabulous 2017, Laura!
Andrea's Wellness Notes
Oh this dress from MakemyChic is not only gorgeous but also warm. And yes love the OTS touch nice way to make it a bit more dressy.ReplyDelete
Allie of ALLIENYC
I love this sweater dress, and the off-the-shoulder style looks great on you! I'm glad you had a wonderful holiday!ReplyDelete
Great article, love it. BTW I've just written this post on the best business casual outfits and thought you would like it :O)ReplyDelete
That's so nice that you got some nice family time with your parents and daughter. WE get caught up with work and forget to take the time to spend quality time with one another. Love the sweater dress, suits you well! http://the-wardrobe-stylist.com/2016/12/26/best-dress-shirt-men/ReplyDelete
Love a good sweater dress and this one is perfect. Love the navy and taupe color combo.ReplyDelete
xx, Elise
WOW! How fun to find a sweater dress with the cold shoulder trend. Love your snowy background, too. Jelly!ReplyDelete


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I apologize. I know it is confusing, and I am sorry.
Libronix is a brand name owned by Logos. The Libronix Digital Library System is what we call our software platform. Logos Bible Software is what we call the products that contain both the Libronix DLS and a collection of electronic books, because without the books there is nothing Bible-specific about the Libronix DLS.
Other companies use the Libronix DLS, too, under license from us, and they give their products (consisting of the Libronix DLS and their electronic books) different names, like eBible or The Essential IVP Reference Collection.
We created the Libronix brand many years ago with the idea of separating our technology from our content-based products in order to make it easier for other companies to license and use our technology in their own products. We did not use the word "Logos" in the technology brand in order to avoid confusion between ours and other Bible software packages; we also had secular publishers licensing the technology, and the word "Logos" did not mean anything in that context.
Back then we also imagined that we might split the company into two organizations, one focused on technology and one on Bible software content. We created the Libronix Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Logos in anticipation of that split. Our strategy has changed, though, and we are now completely focused on serving the Bible software market and our publishing partners in Bible-related publishing. Libronix Corporation still exists, but as no more than a file folder of paperwork and a separate phone number that rings at the Logos reception desk.
What do we call our product? Logos Bible Software. This is the product you can buy, in specifically named collections: Logos Bible Software Pastor's Library, Logos Bible Software Scholar's Library, etc.
What do we call our software platform? The Libronix DLS. This is the technology platform shared by many publishers, including Logos Bible Software. When you are installing or activating or upgrading the software itself you are working with the Libronix DLS, and all of those actions affect all the Libronix DLS based books you have installed, regardless of which product they came in.
And finally, Libronix is a word that we made up. That made it easier for trademark and domain name purposes. We pronounce it like "library" and "electronics".


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The building is located in the immediate vicinity of the Torrent cable car. Residence "Ringstrasse (Utoring)". In the resort, 500 m from the centre. In the house: bar, lounge, table tennis, lift, washing machine, tumble dryer (extra). Bread roll service and beverage service. Parking at the house. Shop 300 m, outdoor swimming pool 500 m, thermal baths 300 m. Tennis 300 m, cable car, mountain railway 50 m. The house is located on the southwest wooded slope, directly next to the Torrent cable car. Only a small staircase separates the house from the station downstream. Parking: winter: parking space for 35CHF / week, box (garage) for 70CHF / week, summer: free parking place, box (garage) for 35CHF / week. The rental includes the "Leukerbad Plus Card". It offers free use of the "Ringjet" bus, free access to the beginners ski area "Snowpark Sportarena (Erli)", free access to the sports center (badminton, tennis, squash, billiards, table, ice skating, football, futsal, mini golf, etc.), 15% discount on the purchase price of a ski pass and swimming. And 10% discount on subscriptions and pass to access the thermal baths and take the mountain trains.
2-room apartment 62 m2 on 3rd floor: living/dining room with 2 fold-away beds, cable TV and radio. 1 double bedroom. Kitchen (oven, dishwasher, 4 ceramic glass hob hotplates, microwave). Bath/WC, sep. WC. Balcony. Terrace furniture. Beautiful view of the mountains and the valley. Facilities: telephone. Internet (WiFi, free). Please note: non-smokers only.
Included in price: • ERV cancellation insurance • Final cleaning • Laundry (initial supply of bed linen and towels) • Local tax
Compulsory extra costs, to be paid to the local service provider: • Breakage deposit: CHF 300.00 Payable in resort fixed price
Additional services (optional): • Cot (up to 2 years): CHF 30.00 Bookable extra, payable in resort fixed price • Parking: CHF 5.00 Bookable extra, payable in resort per day
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Staggering peaks on three sides, and blissful thermal baths to ogle them from – Leukerbad is the Alps' biggest spa destination, and the alpine and Nordic activities in the Torrent and Gemmi areas go swimmingly with a week of R&R.
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Posting historical photos leads to new contributions from the public
Agency: Library of Congress
Project: Library of Congress photostream
Location: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
Technology: Flickr
Photographs are among the most compelling connections to the past, offering the viewer a glimpse of another time and place. As the national repository for documents and photographs, the Library of Congress decided to create a Web site on which people could check out some of its millions of archived photographs.
The library launched its Flickr site in 2008 with 3,100 photographs selected from its two most popular color collections, which depict the Depression and World War II. LOC chose color photographs because they would attract more people, said Helena Zinkham, acting chief of LOC's print and photographs division. The site has grown to include about 9,000 photos.
Since the launch of LOC's site on Flickr, the library has added a second collection of 40,000 news photographs from the Bain Collection. Many of the photos in the collection are a century old and consist of minimally captioned news photographs. Zinkham said the originals were mostly shot on glass plates, with names and details scratched onto the plates.
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Zinkham said the library had three reasons for using Flickr. The first was to broaden public awareness of the library's photo collections. Second, the library wanted to add to its collections and knowledge of the photos. She said people have contributed additional photographs to the collections and additional information about some of the existing images. The third reason was that the library officials felt that Flickr provided a good way for the organization to participate in social media, she said.
Michelle Springer, LOC's project manager of digital initiatives, said social media provides a platform to engage the public and ask for help in describing some photographs. This input provides the library with additional information about the photographs, which enriches the catalog. Visitors have updated 1,700 records using the Flickr Commons Community as a source. She said social media provides a two-way conversation between the library and public. Since its launch in 2008, the site has had more than 25 million visitors and averages more than 700,000 views per month.
Even with a site as open as Flickr, there still was a learning curve for LOC. Library officials thought that they could just open a Flickr account, but a government agency cannot simply sign a terms-of-service agreement, Springer said. At the time, Flickr did not have an appropriate rights statement for photographs and had to draft a new one tailored to LOC's needs. Perhaps most importantly, however, Flickr worked with the library to create a new space where public commons data could be loaded.
The Commons (www.flickr.com/commons) now hosts material from more than 40 libraries and museums. Springer said an important part of the Commons is that the material is completely public, with no copyright restrictions on publication. The library's Flickr site continues to grow, with the addition of about 50 old news photos per week. Zinkham notes that new sets are constantly being added to the mix.
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The reported upcoming pairing of the gang from "Glee" and the crew from Riverdale High in Archie Comics is a natural – especially for a show that's essentially a live-action cartoon set to a pop soundtrack.
The coupling is a tribute to Archie's long influence on humor- and lovelorn-driven teenage angst fare from "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" to "Happy Days" to "Gossip Girls" and, yes, "Glee." But the latest exercise in the comic book version of stunt casting also underscores Archie's status as the redheaded stepchild of an entertainment world ruled by other comic franchises.
At age 70, humble and lovable Archie Andrews shares the same goal as his occasionally more cutthroat New Directions counterparts: to become a breakout star.
That's not to denigrate the success of Archie Comics, which created an enduring image of an American teenage-hood that didn't exist in reality when Jughead gobbled his first burger at Pop's Malt Shop at the dawn of World War II. But outside of the short-lived late 1960s cartoon show that spawned the ultimate bubblegum hit, "Sugar Sugar," Archie's biggest triumphs have been limited to the funny pages (even if off-shoots staring pals like Sabrina and Josie enjoyed some subsequent TV success). The 1990 NBC TV movie "Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again," offered an entertaining, wry look at Archie and his pals in their 30s, but is remembered more for kitsch than quality.
The Archie Comics crew has been working hard in recent years to grab attention. The 2009 "Archie Gets Married" fantasy series proved the Riverdale equivalent of the "Death of Superman" gimmick. More recently, the bold gay marriage cover notched press – and sales – and marked a shot at relevancy. Last year's "Archie Meets KISS" crossover proved a retro-camp favorite – and brought a smile to those of us old enough to remember buying the late 1970s KISS comic specials issued by Marvel during the band's fake-blood-spewing hey-day.
The Marvel money machine, no doubt, eats at the easygoing Archie. "The Avengers" is wending its way to near-"Avatar" box office figures. The latest reimagining of the Spider-man franchise snared more than $300 million worldwide in less than a week. DC's Batman is set to return July 20th in "The Dark Knight Rises," another summer blockbuster in the making.
The folks at Archie Comics signed a deal nearly three years ago with a big-time agency to explore TV and film deals, but we've yet to see major results. In the meantime, we can look forward to Archie meeting Finn, and Betty commiserating with Rachel, and Veronica comparing notes with Quinn.
Archie will never have superpowers. His greatest strength rests in that he's still ordinary after all these years. Riverdale remains a long way from Hollywood – and that's as sweet as the inevitable "Glee" cover version of "Sugar Sugar."
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Where Bartenders Drink in Washington, D.C.
Where the pros go, city by city.
Most folks have a favorite watering hole for any given occasion. A favorite neighborhood bar to kick off the weekend. A favorite cocktail spot for a first date. And in a city where the question of where to go for happy hour is as commonplace as that of which federal agency you work for, you'll want to have a few quality bars at the ready (just make sure it's not one of these).
If you're new to the city or just tend to draw a blank come 5 p.m., you're in luck. We've asked 6 of our favorite bartenders in the District for their favorite bars in 3 categories: dive bars, cocktails bars, and bars to go for beer and wine. Click through to the slideshow to find out where D.C.'s bartenders go to quench their thirst.
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text: Strength Foundation 12-Week Workout: Week 3 forward > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Welcome to Week 3 of the RealJock.com Strength Foundation 12-Week workout program from UC Berkeley fitness operations director and premier strength coach Devin Wicks. This week has some familiar exercises, and some new ones as well. For this week, you should notice an increase in difficulty level that is challenging but still manageable. Your job: Do three full sets of each exercise. You should have to really push out that third set, but we want you to get through all three. If three sets at the weight you were using last week seems easy, add five to seven percent more weight this week, but only if you can get through all three sets at the new weight. For cardio, you'll add sprints after your threshold training (see the FAQs for an overview of threshold cardio and sprints). WEEK 3, DAY 1 EXERCISE VIDEO DEMOS The RealJock.com Strength Foundation 12-Week Workout program is broken into three months, each with distinct goals. Month 1 (Base): Primary Goals Familiarize yourself with the gym. Identify large muscle groups. Develop understanding of correct form—keep all movements slow, controlled, and stable. Break down and rebuild muscle and connective tissue (expect some soreness). Learn your limits—and how to appropriately challenge them. Practice pushing through resistance—both physical and psychological. Improve cardiac efficiency by maintaining an elevated heart rate for a sustained period. DAY 1: FULL BODY WORKOUT Track Your Workout Progress with Before and After Pics View Other Members Who Are Tracking Their Workout Progress Strength Foundation Workout Participants Forum Workout Program Overview Frequently Asked Questions Week 1 Workouts Week 2 Workouts Week 3 Workouts Week 4 Workouts Week 5 Workouts Week 6 Workouts Week 7 Workouts Week 8 Workouts Week 9 Workouts Week 10 Workouts Week 11 Workouts Week 12 Workouts STRENGTH TRAINING Exercise Muscles Weight (Goal) Set 1 Reps (Goal) Set 1 Reps (Actual) Set 2 Reps (Goal) Set 2 Reps (Actual) Set 3 Reps (Goal) Set 3 Reps (Actual) Seated Leg Presses Legs Rep Max 12 - 15 12 - 15 12 - 15 Standing Cable Chest Flys Chest Rep Max 12 - 15 12 - 15 12 - 15 Wide-Grip Lat Pulldowns Back Rep Max 12 - 15 12 - 15 12 - 15 Front Dumbbell Raises Shoulders Rep Max 12 - 15 12 - 15 12 - 15 Standing Dumbbell Curls Biceps Rep Max 12 - 15 12 - 15 12 - 15 Dumbbell Skull Crushers Triceps Rep Max 12 - 15 12 - 15 12 - 15 Floor Crunches Abdominals (center and lower) N/A 3 sets of 20 3 sets of 20 3 sets of 20 Superman Hold with Freestyle Kicks Back (lower) N/A 2 sets of 20 2 sets of 20 N/A CARDIO TRAINING Exercise Time Overview Spin or Stationary Bike, or Elliptical Machine 30 Minutes Do 30 minutes on the spin or stationary bike, or on the elliptical machine. For the first 10 minutes, achieve and maintain an RPE of 6 - 7. At minute 10, spend one minute at threshold—an RPE of 8 - 9. Don't just go faster—add both resistance and speed to gain intensity. At minute 11, go directly from your threshold minute to a 20 second sprint. This is an RPE of 9+, an all-out effort. Recover at an RPE of 6 – 7. It will be tempting to crash after the sprint, but try not to go below an RPE of 6 at any point. Maintain your RPE of 6 - 7 until minute 20. At minute 20, again spend one minute at threshold—an RPE of 8 - 9. At minute 21, again go directly from your threshold minute to a 20 second sprint. Go hard in the sprint, with everything you've got. Recover at an RPE of 6 - 7 until minute 25. Cool down at an RPE of 5 - 6 for your last five minutes. See How to Calculate Your RPE for an overview of this heart-rate tracking methodology. EXERCISE DESCRIPTIONS IN BRIEF Exercise Overview Seated Leg Presses Lie on your back on a sled leg press machine, with your feet about hip-width apart and your hands lightly grasping the handles for balance. You should have enough engagement through your leg muscles that you can engage the weights throughout the exercise, never completely releasing the resistance. From the starting position, push strongly with both legs to press the foot plate away from you. Come all the way to a full extension, with your legs straight. To focus the work of this exercise in your quads, press the plate with the balls of your feet. To focus on your glutes and hamstrings, press more from your heels. From the extended position, bend your knees to return to the starting position. Standing Cable Chest Flys Stand in front of the cable machine with your back to the machine and with a handle in each hand. Hold your arms extended out to the sides, slightly in front of the line of your chest, with your palms facing forward. Stagger your feet for stability, so that one leg is forward, with the forward knee remaining behind the ankle. Breathe in deeply and as you exhale, press your arms together in front of you until your arms are extended forward and your hands meet. Pause momentarily, and then allow your arms to return to the starting position, maintaining a controlled movement. Your arms will be straight for this entire exercise, but you should be careful not to lock your elbows. Keep your elbows soft, with a slight bend in them, throughout the entire movement. Your wrists should remain straight. Wide-Grip Lat Pulldowns Seat yourself at a cable station, facing the machine, beneath a long-bar attachment suspended from the cable. Stabilize yourself using the pads above the knees. Reach up and grip with bar with palms facing away from you, hands a little more than shoulder width apart. Pull the bar downward toward your chest, keeping your shoulders down throughout the movement. As you pull down, broaden your chest, pull through your pinkies and slightly tuck your elbows a little bit forward to isolate your lats. When the bar comes close to your chest, pause momentarily and then reverse the motion, slowly resisting the upward motion of the bar as it rises. Front Dumbbell Raises Holding dumbbells in both hands, stand with feet hip width apart. Hold the dumbbells with arms extended straight down just in front of your hips, so that the dumbbells are just in front of your thighs, with palms facing you. Bring your right arm straight up in front of you, keeping the elbow straight but "soft" (not locked) and your hand flat, with palm facing toward you or the floor (never sideways or upward). Lift without shoving forward with the shoulder on the lifting side; keep your shoulders down and back, with your chest lifted. Raise the arm only as high as your shoulder level, and no higher than your chin under any circumstances. From the top of your lift, lower your arm back to your starting position, maintaining a slow and controlled pace. Repeat with the left arm, continuing to alternate through the set. Standing Dumbbell Curls Stand with arms extended downward in front of you and your palms facing forward away from you. Hold your elbows in front of and gently against your ribs to engage the biceps muscle and stabilize your upper body. Curl both weights up at the same time until you fully flex the muscle. Keep your core engaged, your wrists straight, and your elbows in front of your ribs throughout the movement: no swinging! From the top of your range of motion, reverse direction and bring the weights slowly back down to the extended position. Be sure to keep your biceps engaged as you bring the weights back down. Dumbbell Skull Crushers Lie on your back on a flat bench with your head near one end and a dumbbell in each hand. Extend your arms toward the ceiling, but at a 30 or 45-degree angle behind the vertical, such that even in the starting position you can feel tension in your triceps. Your palms should be facing each other. Cross your feet at the ankle and bring your knees toward your chest, so that your upper legs are perpendicular to the bench, your knees are bent at a 90-degree angle, and your lower legs are parallel to the floor. Now, keep your upper arms immobile as you bend your elbows and lower your forearms toward your head. Do not hit yourself in the head with the weights— that's how this exercise gets its name! Instead, keep your hands at shoulder width throughout. Keep your shoulders back and your elbows high as you do these. At the bottom of the movement, reverse direction and bring your hands back to the starting position, again without changing the position of your upper arm. Your tightest flexion will be at the top of the movement, so be careful to control the upward movement as much as the down. Floor Crunches Lie on a floor mat or on the floor with your feet on the ground approximately hip-width apart, your back flat and your elbows bent with fingers just cupping your head on each side. To avoid straining your neck, do not fully support your head in your hands. Use a rolling motion to lift the upper body up off the floor until your shoulder blades are off the floor. Be careful to lift with your abdominal muscles and not with your arms—you should feel no pull in your neck. At the top position, you should feel a complete squeeze in your abdominal area. Hold the squeeze, and then reverse the motion and slowly lower yourself down again until your back is once again flat on the floor or mat. Superman Hold with Freestyle Kicks Lie face down on the floor with your legs extended and your arms straight on the floor in front of you with palms facing down. From the starting position, raise both your legs off the floor as you retract your shoulder blades and lift your arms, shoulders, and chest off the floor as well. Keep your head and neck in line with your back. Once only your stomach and hips are on the floor, maintain the elevated position as you perform freestyle kicks: Kick from the hip with alternating legs, keeping your toes pointed and your knees straight. Be careful not to fling your legs or bend your knees—your kicks should be small, quick, and controlled. EXERCISE IMAGES Photo Credit: Nicolas Smith and Andrew Giammarco


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Guarded. That's the way I would describe Christian Bale when I participated in a group interview with him last August on the set of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Then again, when you're making one of the biggest films of 2012, you probably don't want to be the one who gives away any of the secrets. While Bale was very careful with his answers, he was also in a great mood, which made for a fun back and forth with the visiting journalists.
During the interview Bale talked to us about filming in IMAX, if he'll miss making Batman movies, his relationship with Anne Hathaway's character, if he's happy with the way the story ends, what it's been like working with Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy, the fight scenes, and a lot more. Hit the jump to either read or listen to the interview.
As usual, I'm offering you two ways to get the interview: you can either click here for the audio, or the full transcript is below. The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20.
Question: What's it like shooting in IMAX?
Christian Bale: I have had a little experience from the last one and when we made The Prestige, Chris was experimenting with it at that time. Some of the stuff with twin brother and everything like that, we used it. It's bloody noisy with those cameras, you know you're going to have to do ADR whenever there's the IMAX camera coming out, but it's going to be a hell of a great looking shot. It was stunning in The Dark Knight. I remember sitting in the premiere and people were just like, "Oooh!" feeling like they're in it. It's a lovely piece of machinery.
Can you talk about the percentage that he's been using it on this film?
Bale: No bloody idea. Ask him about that. I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask "Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing?" If I look up and notice the camera I go "Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX." And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.
There is a lot of hype about this film. Was there any doubt in your mind to make another with Chris Nolan again?
Bale: I knew it was going to happen for me because I was contracted to do this film. I had no choice, I would have been sued up the ying-yang and be on the street and penniless if I hadn't done it. Chris, my understanding was, could have chosen not to do it, but he had always talked about this as being a trilogy and he liked the challenge that an awful lot of movies fail on the third one. There are some exceptions but most of the time that's the tricky one to pull off. And I think he really likes the challenge of that.
Are you going to miss playing Batman after this?
Bale: Course I will, yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Will you miss wearing the suit?
Bale: For all the discomfort and the heat and the sweat and the headaches and everything from it, when you sit back and watch the movie at the end of the day, you go: "Well, that's fuckin' cool. " I will miss that, I liked the good bit of rubber.
Can you talk about Bruce's relationship with Selena in this movie? We've seen pictures of them holding hands.
Bale: Have you? You think you have, have you? Aaah, maybe some people are seeing things and they don't know what they're looking at? It's quite interesting to watch and hear what people think we're doing. You look and go, "That's not what we're doing. But never mind, let's let people think that's what we're doing. "
How much does he fall in love with her?
Bale: I'm figuring it all out as I go along. And I'm seeing Chris sitting on this shoulder here and my Emma Thomas sitting on this shoulder right now as you're asking the question going: "Don't say anything! You know you're not allowed to answer that one. " I think let's leave that one until you see the movie.
Your hair's a bit longer in this movie than the others. Is there any significance to that?
Bale: Yeah, a little. But we've always had to mess around… Every single movie that we've done for the Batman stuff has always had hair that we've had to be able to adapt to different looks throughout. So the longer you keep it the more you can do with it. Am I doing a good job? I'm kinda answering the questions but not really giving you shit.
You are making a trilogy with Chris Nolan –as there is an end movie, does it leave you the freedom to create a good character arc in this movie?
Bale: I have no clue what the audience is going to think about the movie. Thank god I got someone like Chris who is really great at gauging that. He represents the audience for us on the set. So for me, I love the character so much that you'd get a very bizarre Batman movie. People would go, "What the hell? Why are we delving so much into his psyche? " He is a fascinating character and then Chris just has to tell me the points when it gets tedious and boring and doesn't want to see what I'm doing. It's great having someone at the helm who's – He's remarkably confident at going with his gut and not desiring any safety net or anything to fall back on. There are a number of times when I say to him: "Are you sure you don't want me to do a few other variants? I can do this one, and what if later down track you choose to change this part of the story, in that case we need to change the domino effect. If you want I can give you three or four different ways you can play it. " He's like: "No, no I know what I want. " That's exactly the thing that I need, he's very firm with it. It is a fascinating character. In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore. But I kind of feel, you have to leave when the going is good and this is when Chris wants to wrap it up. And it's the right time.
Are you happy were his story ends with this movie?
Bale: Yeah, very.
By the third movie is Batman's drive still fed by the death of his parents? Or has he accepted a larger responsibility for Gotham that is not necessarily fueled by that anymore?
Bale: To me, he has it all; it's all in there. The thing is, he is still that child basically. The one thing that I do know, and there's an awful lot in the graphic novels, which we've played with a little bit, is this whole notion of him genuinely being a playboy versus what we've done, which is he sort of performs that but his heart's not really in it. And the eternal problem that Alfred has with watching this guy who has no life. He's put his entire life on hold because, yeah, he still does. He's got this fierceness in his mind and emotions that he just will not forget the pain of the parents. With most people it's like time heals all wounds, but with him it's like, "No, no, no. " He doesn't want to forget it, he wants to maintain that anger that he felt at that injustice but equally he wants to present this very vacuous soulless persona to Gotham so hopefully no one will suspect him but will just think he's a spoiled bastard. But consequently in his most intimate moments he has Alfred, he has Rachel and there is not a whole lot there, because it's complete arrested development. And the recognition that at some point he's got to start living. He is seriously behind in terms of life and enjoyment of life. That's all been sacrificed and at some point, hopefully it's Alfred's wish that he will start to live again. Of course this tragedy has defined him but to a degree he's sacrificed everything that most people would consider worth living for in life and he's going to have relearn that, embarrassingly late in life.
How much time has passed in this movie since the last movie and is anything from the previous movie dealt with in this one?
Bale: There's an awful lot of new discoveries, truths coming out, and the whole question of what's the correct thing to do? Continue with lies and make people feel good or have the truth come out and devastate and ruin people's lives. So yes, absolutely, it goes back to Batman Begins and Dark Knight and deals with an awful lot from both of those movies.
How much time has passed?
Bale: It's been, I would say years. I don't know if Chris would want me to say exactly how long, but it's not the next day. There's been quite a change within him.
Tell us about working with Marion Cotillard and Tom Hardy?
Bale: It's a real good cast. I worked with Marion really briefly in Public Enemies and she's wonderful and versatile actress. So far the work's been really great with her. With Anne [Hathaway] likewise, I think she's doing something very different then what most people probably would have seen her do before. And Tom, who I've been working with mostly the last few weeks, he's a real fascinating actor. He's going to be creating some wonderful characters over his career and he's doing so with this. He's kind of just gleeful coming into work every day. He's got a great character that he can chew the scenery with in a good way He's the real deal. I'm very impressed with him. I'm very impressed with all the cast on this one.
A lot of photos have surfaced on the net of you fighting Bane. Have you seen them?
Bale: I've seen them.
Can you talk about crafting fight scenes with Tom?
Bale: We have fantastic stunt guys. Buster Reeves, who's have been with us since the first one, and Tom Struthers. And thing is, this is sort of what we do. They kind of work out what they'd like to see in the fights and Tom and myself come in and bring in the story to the fights. Because a fight that is just a knock down, everyone punching each other, ceases to be really exciting after a while. You've got to figure a way to tell a story within the fight. And also you can get some very trained fighters who can follow and incredibly fast and furious fight, but I don't know about you guys but as you watch UFC sometimes you're going "I dunno what's going on. " It looks like a bloody mess. You sometimes have to be able to just look at it with eyes like myself, someone who's not a trained fighter and understand what's happening, and it's amazing the difference that between the fantastic stuntmen that come in and do their jobs and when we, Tom and I, come in and say "all right I get that, but this is what I've got to be thinking here, so I've got to do it this way. " And actually seeing a fight that has description and a beginning, middle, and end to it is a wonderful thing, keeps it so much more entertaining and means so much more then showing off a few martial arts moves.
Has Mark called you about another Fighter?
Bale: We haven't spoken anything about it, I've heard that he's been talking with some people about it, but he hasn't spoken to me about it.
For more from our The Dark Knight Rises set visit:
- 20 Things to Know About The Dark Knight Rises From Our Set Visit; Plus a Recap of the Filming Including Bane's Big Entrance
- Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Christopher Nolan's Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger's Joker, Bane's Costume and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Producer Emma Thomas Talks Drawing from Comic Books, Bane, Filming in IMAX and Much More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises


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